On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 09:39 +0000, Jorge Almeida wrote: > The two boxes I use have LCD monitors, of different brands. When in X, > the "real estate" area is optimized. When I switch to a VC, the idea the > system has about the physical dimensions of the screen changes, and a > part of the displayed stuff is cropped. I can adjust it by pressing the > Auto button in the monitor controls, but then I get a black vertical > strip on the left after switching back to X, and I have to press Auto > again, etc. > > The boxes have different graphical cards, one with the ATI kernel driver > and the other with the nvidia driver. The console driver is VESA-TNG in > both cases, but with VESA the problem is the same. > > Is there some workaround? Some way the coax the system into using the > correct physical dimensions in X and VC? > > -- > Jorge Almeida
Use the VESAFB-TNG statement to set the terminal update frequency and resolution to the same values used in X. /Björn Ottervik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
